Data Analyst Contracts in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 139 143
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 297 519 788
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.92% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 2.01% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 389 602
10th Percentile £322 £274 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £577
90th Percentile £650 £677 £644
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 16
10th Percentile £24.03 £14.78 £12.38
25th Percentile £27.06 £21.13 £13.22
Median hourly rate £33.25 £27.75 £23.94
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +15.91% +4.86%
75th Percentile £39.56 £57.31 £37.25
90th Percentile £42.68 £126.75 £42.38
England median hourly rate £21.64 £22.33 £19.52
% change year-on-year -3.09% +14.40% +5.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +31 65 £488 -13.72% 10
West London +15 6 £513 +10.81% 2
North London - 2 £275 - 1
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 116 (39.06%) Finance
2 107 (36.03%) SQL
3 89 (29.97%) Data Analysis
4 80 (26.94%) Social Skills
5 72 (24.24%) Power Platform
5 72 (24.24%) Power BI
6 69 (23.23%) Business Intelligence
7 63 (21.21%) Data Quality
8 61 (20.54%) Data Modelling
8 61 (20.54%) Python
9 60 (20.20%) Visualisation
9 60 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
10 57 (19.19%) Banking
11 49 (16.50%) Data Management
12 48 (16.16%) Analytics
13 41 (13.80%) Microsoft Excel
14 40 (13.47%) Migration
14 40 (13.47%) Data Governance
15 36 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (11.78%) Tableau
16 35 (11.78%) Data Visualisation
16 35 (11.78%) Azure
17 34 (11.45%) Change Management
18 30 (10.10%) Decision-Making
19 29 (9.76%) Data Migration
20 28 (9.43%) ETL
21 26 (8.75%) Microsoft
22 24 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
23 23 (7.74%) Data Cleansing

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.35%) Confluence
2 4 (1.35%) SAS
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 41 (13.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.70%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (24.24%) Power Platform
2 35 (11.78%) Azure
3 13 (4.38%) AWS
3 13 (4.38%) Collibra
4 10 (3.37%) Power Automate
5 9 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (3.03%) PowerApps
6 7 (2.36%) GCP
7 6 (2.02%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.35%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (1.01%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.01%) dbt
10 3 (1.01%) MailChimp
10 3 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.01%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.67%) Google Data Studio
11 2 (0.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.02%) DNS
1 6 (2.02%) Firewall
2 5 (1.68%) DHCP
3 4 (1.35%) IPv4
4 1 (0.34%) NAS
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (24.24%) Power BI
2 35 (11.78%) Tableau
3 24 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (5.72%) Metadata
5 16 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.69%) Big Data
8 7 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.02%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.02%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.02%) Looker
10 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Eclipse
1 5 (1.68%) JIRA
2 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.34%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) RStudio
General
1 116 (39.06%) Finance
2 80 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (19.19%) Banking
5 16 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.38%) Retail
7 12 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.70%) Marketing
9 10 (3.37%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.03%) Legal
11 8 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.36%) Front Office
13 5 (1.68%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.01%) General Ledger
15 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.68%) PySpark
2 2 (0.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (0.67%) ggplot2
2 2 (0.67%) LDAP
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.67%) Pandas
2 2 (0.67%) Plotly
2 2 (0.67%) Shiny
3 1 (0.34%) JSON
3 1 (0.34%) Node.js
3 1 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (2.02%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.02%) NHS
3 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.68%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.35%) Derivative
5 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.67%) CMDB
7 2 (0.67%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.67%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.67%) Solar Power
7 2 (0.67%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.03%) Windows
2 4 (1.35%) Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.97%) Data Analysis
2 69 (23.23%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (20.54%) Data Modelling
4 60 (20.20%) Visualisation
5 49 (16.50%) Data Management
6 48 (16.16%) Analytics
7 40 (13.47%) Data Governance
7 40 (13.47%) Migration
8 36 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (11.78%) Data Visualisation
10 34 (11.45%) Change Management
11 30 (10.10%) Decision-Making
12 29 (9.76%) Data Migration
13 28 (9.43%) ETL
14 23 (7.74%) Data Cleansing
15 22 (7.41%) Agile
16 20 (6.73%) Data Science
17 19 (6.40%) Actionable Insight
17 19 (6.40%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 107 (36.03%) SQL
2 61 (20.54%) Python
3 10 (3.37%) R
4 8 (2.69%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.68%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.68%) VBScript
6 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.67%) C#
8 2 (0.67%) C++
8 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.67%) Java
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) Go
9 1 (0.34%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) VB
9 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (6.06%) Degree
2 11 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.34%) CISM
5 1 (0.34%) CISSP
5 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.37%) QA
3 8 (2.69%) GDPR
4 6 (2.02%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.67%) MiFID
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) EMIR
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.06%) Oracle
3 12 (4.04%) Databricks
4 11 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 11 (3.70%) Refinitiv
5 10 (3.37%) Alteryx
5 10 (3.37%) SAP
6 6 (2.02%) Google
7 5 (1.68%) Adobe
7 5 (1.68%) Citrix
7 5 (1.68%) Datix
7 5 (1.68%) Informatica
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.01%) Splunk
10 2 (0.67%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.67%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.67%) Optimizely